Many years ago... 10? I was at a tiny hotel near FCO with a bottle of wine I bought in Rome, wanting to drink it with my then GF before we flew back to the states the next day.

No corkscrew to be had anywhere. We kept trying to break the bottle to get in, but it just wouldn't budge. At no point did we think about pushing the cork INTO the bottle.

I felt stupid years later when I realized that.